This has been a really good week and I'm trying to remember everything that happened, but it seems that my days are combining so we will just go with what I can remember.
On Monday we went and hiked around Mount Tabor. It's not a very big hike, it's just kind of a nature walk but it was good to get out and to breathe a little bit. It was a very fun day. We had a lesson with our investigator named David. We are having to teach him very simply because he is from Rwanda and doesn't speak much English.
Tuesday we had our district meeting then we did a lot of driving because we felt like we needed to go to the very tip of our area. After what felt like persecution of the Saints, with a lot of very uninterested people, we found Wendy. She's this old lady who has a lot of member friends. Her family are members of the church. We started talking to her and she told us that she was looking for a closer relationship with God. We shared the restoration with her and helped her understand that she could strengthen that relationship. It was a solid lesson and we referred her over to the missionaries there. Sometimes we feel like we're bounty hunters for the Lord because we go in and we find some people for the missionaries in other areas that are really elect and ready to get baptized.
Wednesday, Oh what a day! My favorite part of every month! We did Stake reports! That took up the majority of our day. Then after that we felt like we needed to go find a blue house with an American flag outside. We went looking for a blue house and ran into a former investigator that we dropped because we haven't been able to make contact with him. I didn't recognize him at first because he was coming up from behind us on the street. We talked to him and he said he’s just been really busy with work and hasn't had time to meet. I think we were supposed to see him for us to be on his mind.
Thursday afternoon was very interesting. Not a lot of action or excitement happened. We went to a college campus and taught this guy in one of the student commons areas. That was the first time I've done that and probably the last. It just wasn't a good place for the spirit. The guy we were meeting was a investigator in the past and he's not ready really at all right now so it was kind of a waste of our time. Then we actually had a cool miracle. We made contact with a potential investigator through his phone. That does not ever happen. Usually YSA are always on their phone but they never get back to anyone. That was awesome.
The later part of our week was when a lot of things started happening for us. We had a planning session today and I think it went pretty well. We have some new ideas and some new things to try to help the area get moving. Later that night we had a really good lesson with David teaching him the plan of salvation. It is very interesting teaching him because of his understanding and his language limitations. We have to go really slow and basically teach like we're teaching a child. But that lesson went really well the spirit was there and he had a good understanding of what we taught.
Saturday was really awesome! We had a recently returned missionary call us and say her friend wants to meet with us for her class at school. She is taking a world religion class and needed to experience meeting with the missionaries. We had never met her and we gave a church tour. It was one of the few times that I have given a church tour. It went really really well. We made sure everything was ready for the tour and all the lights were on and then we started giving the tour. We didn't know what to expect because we've never met her before, but it was a powerful lesson. She didn't have much of a belief in God at first, but the spirit was there so hopefully she felt something. After the tour we headed over to a lesson with some Elders out in Gresham. They told us they were supposed to pass us off their investigator. The lesson fell through, so we felt like we needed to make a few phone calls. We called a few numbers off the numbers that have been in our records for a very long time. We called this guy and he answered and he said we could totally come by his place! That is a crazy cool miracle!
Yesterday we had a stellar day. At church one of the members brought their friend who wants to be taught. Also, this random person shows up at church who wants to be baptized! That is crazy! She actually was a member a long time ago but she removed her records and wants to get back into church. Stuff like that never happens! Usually people who remove their records do not want any part of the church or coming back to it. Then after church we went to the lesson of the miracle phone call from just the other day. And this guy was golden! We started off really well and found out he just wants to find a belief in God. It was an amazing lesson! Then on the way home from that lesson we felt like we needed to call one of our recent converts and set up a time to meet and she said that she will bring her friend with her to the next meeting! We found three new investigators just in church or through some really cool miracles!
Love,
Elder Astle
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